President & Chief Operating Officer

FC Mother (www.fcmother.com) is a social impact game built on football's global infrastructure. Developed in collaboration with Harvard and the Pele Foundation, it turns the world's largest fandom — 6 billion football fans — into a distribution engine for social health support delivered to Mothers worldwide. We're building a movement at the intersection of football, culture, and impact — and we're doing it on the biggest stage possible: FIFA World Cup 2026.

We have 18 global football partnerships, a growing audience across platforms, and a founding team led by 2 unicorn founders. We're looking for an ambitious, hard-working, and experienced President & Chief Operating Officer who can help lead the company's operations.

Role Overview
The President & COO will run day-to-day operations, scale the team, drive commercial growth, and ensure execution of campaigns and partnerships, while the CEO focuses on vision, strategic partnerships, capital, and top-line growth.

This is a highly competitive salary and equity opportunity for a leader ready to build and scale a global social health platform at a defining moment in its trajectory.

Core Responsibilities

Team & Talent

• Recruit, hire, and develop the first core functional leaders (Growth, Product, Data, Marketing/Sales)
• Define team structure, responsibilities, and performance culture
• Manage and mentor leaders to execute efficiently at scale

Commercial Execution & Growth

• Drive commercial activations with clubs, brands, and media
• Operationalize campaigns and partnerships to generate impact, engagement, and revenue
• Identify growth opportunities and ensure the team executes rapidly

Operations & Scaling

• Establish systems and processes that enable fast execution without bureaucracy
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across Growth, Product, Data, and Sales/Partnerships
• Ensure campaigns, launches, and activations are delivered on time, on target, and with measurable outcomes

Partnership & Campaign Leadership

• Act as the operational lead for strategic partnerships
• Translate deals into executed campaigns and measurable fan and community engagement
• Ensure the platform’s gamified experiences drive participation and impact

Fundraising Support

• Support CEO with fundraising by providing operational and commercial context
• Demonstrate how campaigns, partnerships, and growth plans drive mission and metrics

Who You Are

• Experienced in scaling startups or early-stage companies from ~$1M to $10M+ revenue
• Proven commercial operator: can turn strategy into measurable growth and impact
• Strong team builder: hires, mentors, and scales high-performing functional leaders
• Hands-on, entrepreneurial, and execution-focused
• Comfortable in ambiguity, fast-paced environments, and with global activations
• Mission-driven: passionate about creating impact at scale

Bonus

• Experience in sports, gaming, or consumer platform activations
• Participated in or led an exit process
• Familiarity with gamification, platform growth, and community engagement